Assignment 3

In this assignment, we'll focus on practical issues involving project planning. The project will end with a visualization and report, so it makes sense to work backward from that due date to plan for the rest of the work.

This project plan will be like a contract that you make with the clients. You are making a promise to deliver the work to them by the due date. I'll act as the client in terms of holding you to account for the work you promise to do. So your task on this assignment is to create a project timeline that demonstrates how you will do the work that will result in the visualization and report.

In the project timeline, you must include:
A. Access to the data for the project. This is more than identifying a data source; you must have secured access, as demonstrated by a Tableau worksheet or Python code creating a DataFrame. This should be the first benchmark.

B. Data verification. You need to demonstrate that you are reading in the data correctly so that you can proceed with analysis. This benchmark should follow (A) relatively closely; once you have secured access, it won't be a lot more work to verify the data.

C. Plan for analysis. Once you have access to data and verify it, you can explore the potential for visualization. This benchmark is the first draft of what the visualization will look like. You should plan to have four distinct visualizations from your data that relate to the question and add some specific insight; you don't want to produce visualizations that are redundant.

D. Code verification. Once you've executed the plan for your analysis, before you prepare the report, you need to verify your code (in Python or Tableau). This is the last opportunity to eliminate errors that would distort your interpretation of the data.

E. Project delivery. This benchmark is fixed on the schedule.

You can produce this project plan on a calendar or as text.